Pith Number

pith:S2LGSD6W

pith:2018:S2LGSD6W4ANHKILGDXEN24OEB2

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Natural Gradients in Practice: Non-Conjugate Variational Inference in Gaussian Process Models

Hugh Salimbeni, James Hensman, Stefanos Eleftheriadis

arxiv:1803.09151 v1 · 2018-03-24 · stat.ML · cs.LG

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:20:12.493589Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9696690fd6e01a7521661dc8dd71c40ebf2dd6ebe43bfd1d9ad87ec5af71fa86

Aliases

arxiv: 1803.09151 · arxiv_version: 1803.09151v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1803.09151 · pith_short_12: S2LGSD6W4ANH · pith_short_16: S2LGSD6W4ANHKILG · pith_short_8: S2LGSD6W

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/S2LGSD6W4ANHKILGDXEN24OEB2 \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 9696690fd6e01a7521661dc8dd71c40ebf2dd6ebe43bfd1d9ad87ec5af71fa86

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0c15a9890fb600cf17ffc2e9590e0ab5696dc91f950620ce3a1ac5100075240d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ML",
    "submitted_at": "2018-03-24T19:11:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5e21ea7935cc6503f7da0ba5412ab77889042a405e0762715a4ded45d0fc23ba"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1803.09151",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}